West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-09-15

1 am afraid OF is that IL any OF those bow,
should use bad word in that presence the
2ther boys would tear him 10 pieces and kill
him on the spot" That woman is best shell.
tered who is sheltered by the Lord God All
mighty, and you need never fear 6cih6 any-
where where Ged tslls YOU % 20
~ seems as II the Lord hal ordained woman
Tor an especial work in the solicitation Uf
charities. Backed up by barrels ia which
lhero % no -four, and by stoves in which
there Is no fire, and by wardrobes i'm which
there arc no clothes, "a woman is irresistible.
passing ON her errand, God says 70 her: you
go into that bank, or store, or shop and get
the money" She goes in and gets IT, The
man IS hard hsto1, but she gets A. She
could not help but get &C. IL is decfeed from
eternity she should get a. No nesd 81 ydhr
turning your back and pretending you don't
hear; you do hear There is no need OF your
saying you are begged 70 death There is
no need OF your wasting your time
ana You might as well submit first
as lat You bad better right away
take down your check book mark the
number OF the check, fiji up the blank, sign
your name aud hand IL 20 her. There is no
need OF wasting time. Those poor children
ON the back street have bsen hungry long
enough. That sick man must have some
tarina. That consunptive must have some
thing 10 ease his cough. meet this delegate
OF a relief society coming out of tho store of
such sue =, hard listed man, and say! "Did you
lord told ME 10 go in aud get IT. an1 he never
sends me on a fools Grand
Again, / have 20 tell you that il is a
woman's specific right TO comfort under the
stress OF dtre disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel, but all profane as well as
sacred history attests that when the crisis
comes she Is better prepared than man 70
meet the emergency. How often you have
seen woman who seemed TO be a Disciple OF
frivolity and Incidence, who under one stroke
OF calamity, changed 10 a heroine Oh what
n great mistake those business men make
VINO never tell their business troubles 10 their
wlVesl There comes some great loss TO their
store Or some OF their companions in bust
ness pay them sad trick, and they carry
inc burden all alone. He is asked in the house.
mold again and again: What is the matterl
Dut ne believes 1t sort Of Christian duty
10 keep all that trouble within his own
soul On, your first duty was to tell
your wife all about IL. She perhaps might
not have disentangled your finances or OK.
tSeiued your credit but she would have
helped you TO bear misfortune You have no
right 20 carry ON one shoulder that which Is
intended for two. There are business men
here who know what | mean. There came
crisis in your affairs. You struggled
brave'y and long, but after while there
came day when you said: "Here | shall
nave 70 stop" and you called i'm your part
ners, and yon called i'm the most prominent
men IN your employ, and you said; awe have
gO5 20 stop" You left Che store suddenly
You coul hardly make up your mind TO pass
through the street and over on the ferryboat
You felt everybody would be looking at YOU
ana blaming you and denouncing you. You
nastcned nome: You told your wife all about
the affair. What did she sayi Did she play
the buttertly' Did she talk about the silks and
the ribbons and the fashionsl No She came
up 10 the emergency. She quaied not under
the stroke. She helped you to begin TO plan
right away She offered TO go out of the
comfortable house into n smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter She was
one who understood your affairs without
blaming you. You looked upon what you
Thought was a thin, weak woman's arm hold
ing you up, but while you looked at that arm
there came into the feeble muscles of it the
strength OF the eternal God. No Gliding.
no tretting. No telling you about the beau
titul house OF her father from which you
brought her ten, twenty, or thirty years ago
You said: "Well, this is the happiest day OF
my life. am glad have gotten from under
my burden My wife don't care-I don't
care. AT the moment you were utterly ex.
hausted, God sent a Deborah to meet
the host of the Amalekites and scatter them
ike chaH over the plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels ana who wish that they had some
grand field in which TO display their Chris
tlan powers. Oh, what grand and glorious
things they could do il they only had an op-
purtunityi My sister, you need not wait for
any such time. a crisis will come in your
affairs There will be a ThermopylB in
your own household, where God will tell You
10 stand. There are scores and hundreds of
households to-day whore as much bravery and
courage are demanded OF woman as was OK
hibited by Grace Darling, or Marie Antoi-
nette, or Joan of Arc.
Again ] remark, it is woman's right to
bring TO us the kingdom of heaven IL is
easier fora woman 70 be Christian than for
man. Whyl You say she is weaker No
Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings
OF divine love She is in vast majority The
fact that she can more easily become n Chris
tan, prove by the statement that three
fOurthS OF the members of the churches i'm all
Christendom are women So God appoints
them to be the chief agencies for bringing
this world back TO God 1 may stand
here and say the soul is immortal There is
man who will refute il. | NAV stand here
Christ There is a man who will refute it.
may stand here and say there will be a Judg-
ment Day after while. Yonder is some one
who will refute it, But n Christian woman
In Christian household, living in the
faith and the consistency Of Christ's
Gospel-nObody can refute that. The
greatest sermons are not preached on cele-
DRAFTED platforms; they are preached with an
audience of two or three, and in private home
lie A consistent, consecrated Christian
service Is an unanSwerabe demonstration of
Gods truth. A sailor came slipping down
the ratliues one night, as though something
had happened and the sailors cried: Whats
the matterp He said my mothers prayers
hnunt me like a ghost" Home influences.
cohsecrated, Christian home influences are
ne mightiest Of all influences upon the soul
lhere are men here to-day who have main
toinci thclr integrity. not because thoy yyers
any better naturally than some other people,
nuJ because there were home influences pray
llS TOT them all the time. They got a good
start. They were launched on the world
WIN the benedictions OF "a Christian mother
lhey may track Siberian SHOWS, they may
plunge in African junGles, they may fly to
siio ctrth cnl-they cannot go go far and so
I',J out tho prayer, will keep up with them
stand before women to-day who have the
eternal salvation OF their husbqnds i'm their
right band ON tle marriage day YOU took
an % eth before men and angels that Won
would he faithful aul kind until death did
You part, aud believe YOU arc going 10 keen
tn1t oath, hut after thIt parting at the door
OBJ tho grave viii b. bs am eternal s.parationi
Us There nuv FJ 20 th uE a3 nu immortal mar.
ru-e, ulkiuL the flowers that grow ON the
tpp NJ the s'pulcnor brighter than the car.
jan ls which at tIc marriage banlu,t 200 led
bi' ayr with nrluIt NnI. stand hers as n
priest 0i tho most high Cos. 90 proclaim the
pHlHF 0i iu immo't OF uI oI FOR an those who
l'n huIf 900 tbs -rn"- oI Christ % woman
i5t"tr nus .an :, YOU It .lar your son away
IRON God The lord lnu1lis their rcdemp
u'n at y1W hands. There are prayers foI
y'1 Io of'r There ora exu1rfati6ns for Won
I'D -l.o. iIer' 1ro rNHnu. for YOU 20 set.
iiI IflN uIH. t7 PIuI Sold tIfla l'o-inthiau
VOID in. 'N uut Know. ttIIu % woman. toni
ihou caust Save thy Nu 1trIr
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